Was there any more stupid controversy during the recent presidential campaign than the debate over whether we should talk to Iran or not? Things haven’t improved much since then. Tehran’s efforts to obtain the bomb may be one of the two or three most momentous foreign policy issues Barack Obama faces as he settles into the White House. It’s certainly one of the most pressing (within a few months Iran may have enough enriched uranium to produce one bomb). Yet it’s as if a blanket of silence has fallen over Washington’s commentariate. Very few of these writers are talking about Iran. What’s going on? Is the issue just too scary for us to contemplate?
